by Michael Johnson | Apr 2, 2025 | General Stuff
Hi everyone. You may have heard by now that Microsoft’s venerable Advanced Group Policy Management (AGPM) tool will reach it’s end of life next April 2026. What does this mean? When software reaches end of life it generally means that the vendor will no...
by Darren Mar-Elia | May 13, 2022 | General Stuff
One of the annoying things about Group Policy, is that delegations to GPOs are not cleaned up when the underlying security principal (e.g. user, computer or group) is deleted in Active Directory. For example, if you create a security filter on a GPO for a particular...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Apr 26, 2021 | General Stuff
A question came up on Twitter the other day related to how Group Policy behaves on a given client, when you move either the computer or user account in Active Directory. As we know, the Group Policy that applies to a computer or user is a function of what GPOs are...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Apr 15, 2019 | General Stuff, Security-related
The title of this blog tells it all. I got asked the question–what happens to GP processing when a client machine isn’t on the network and can’t connect to it’s domain Domain Controllers (DCs)? Does policy get removed? Does it just stay where...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Nov 29, 2017 | General Stuff
All- Over the past few years, I’ve sent out a survey to the general population looking at trends in Group Policy usage. I’ve updated the survey for this year and it is now live and ready for your responses. It should take only about 5 minutes or less to...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Aug 17, 2017 | General Stuff
If you’ve been in the Microsoft infrastructure scene for a while, you probably remember the original NetPro Directory Experts Conference (DEC). DEC was THE conference to be at if you were an AD guy–or looking to improve your skills. Legends in the space...
